Easley is the replacement NFL official who called that controversial game-winning touchdown in the Seahawks’ 14-12 win over Green Bay on Sept. 24. He’s the guy who was closest to the Hail Mary catch and signaled the touchdown as time expired, giving Seattle the last-second victory.

Of course, that touchdown call was highly scrutinized in the following week, with some sports fans saying it was the worst call ever. And the debacle appears to have led to the end of the lockout of the NFL’s regular officials, who returned to the field three days after that Monday Night Football game.

But Easley, who as we reported earlier is a banker from Santa Maria, Calif., is standing by his touchdown call, and told “Today” host Matt Lauer that he doesn’t have any regrets about it.

“Until they change the rule, I can’t do anything about the call,” Easley said on “Today.” (Video embedded below.)

What rule? Let’s review. Again.

On the last play of the MNF game Sept. 24 in Seattle, as the final 8 seconds ticked off the clock, Seahawks quarterback Russell Wilson tossed a Hail Mary pass to the end zone, where receivers Golden Tate and Charly Martin were waiting. A big clump of players — Seahawks and Packers — jumped up for the catch. Based off Easley’s initial call, the replacement referees ruled that Tate and Packers safety M.D. Jennings both caught the ball, and by the NFL’s simultaneous possession rule awarded the Seahawks the game-winning touchdown.

That catch was documented from several angles on photo and video. (Otto Greule Jr./Getty Images)

Upon review, the ruling stood. But the video replay, many people say, clearly shows two things. First, that Tate pushed cornerback Sam Shields to the turf before jumping up for the ball, which could have been called offensive pass interference. Second, that Jennings appeared to touch the ball first while Tate tried to get his hands in there, though video from different angles showed slightly different things — and raised other questions, such as whether Tate completed the catch first when his feet hit the ground before Jennings’.

The next day, the NFL released a statement on the play, saying Tate should have been called for pass interference. But the NFL stood by the officials’ replay review, saying the video was inconclusive and that the ruling on the field stood.

Most sports fans seems to think that the replacement refs screwed up big-time by calling a touchdown — it should have been a Jennings interception, many fans say. Others, having seen video replays and many photos, have said that Tate indeed caught the game-winning TD, or at least was close enough to a reception that the ruling wasn’t egregious.

“It’s bedlam at the end of a game like that, especially on Monday Night Football,” Easley said. “Seattle is a great venue — very, very loud, if you’ve never been there and seen an event. It was chaos afterwards, and then I had to get in there and separate everybody.”

“Is there anything you would have done differently?” Lauer asked him.

“Nothing,” Easley said with a smile, “except wish that players would have batted the ball out of bounds and not had the play happen.”